Other People We Married

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"Emma Straub is worthy of our adoration. These stories are wise, surprising, hilarious, and unforgettable." —KAREN RUSSELL, author of St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves and Swamplandia!
IN OTHER PEOPLE WE MARRIED, Straub creates characters as recognizable as a best friend, and follows them through moments of triumph and transformation with wit, vulnerability, and dazzling insight. In "Some People Must Really Fall in Love," an assistant professor takes halting steps into the awkward world of office politics while harboring feelings for a freshman student. Two sisters struggle with old assumptions about each other as they stumble to build a new relationship in "A Map of Modern Palm Springs." In "Puttanesca," two widows move tentatively forward, still surrounded by ghosts and disappointments from the past. These twelve stories, filled with sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language, announce the arrival of a major new talent.
"Emma Straub is a wry, witty, incisively... Tovább

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"Emma Straub is worthy of our adoration. These stories are wise, surprising, hilarious, and unforgettable." —KAREN RUSSELL, author of St Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves and Swamplandia!
IN OTHER PEOPLE WE MARRIED, Straub creates characters as recognizable as a best friend, and follows them through moments of triumph and transformation with wit, vulnerability, and dazzling insight. In "Some People Must Really Fall in Love," an assistant professor takes halting steps into the awkward world of office politics while harboring feelings for a freshman student. Two sisters struggle with old assumptions about each other as they stumble to build a new relationship in "A Map of Modern Palm Springs." In "Puttanesca," two widows move tentatively forward, still surrounded by ghosts and disappointments from the past. These twelve stories, filled with sharp humor, emotional acuity, and joyful language, announce the arrival of a major new talent.
"Emma Straub is a wry, witty, incisively observant writer."
—DAN CHAON, author of Await Your Reply
"Emma Straub's stories mean that there are fewer lonely people in the world; they are the best kind of company. I'm giddy about their very existence, the way you get giddy when you meet someone you'd like to know for a long, long time. I look forward to knowing Emma Straub's fiction for a long, long time." -THISBE NISSEN, author of The Good People of New York and Osprey Island
"Razor-sharp and tenderhearted, funny and wrenching. Emma Straub's stories take place in all the messy, fascinating, uncanny corners of contemporary relationships." -KELLY LINK, author of
Stranger Things Happen and Magic for Beginners
EMMA STRAUB
_____'from New York City. Her fiction
nonfiction have been published by Tin House, The Paris Review Daily, Slate, and Cousin Corinne's Reminder. She is a staff writer for Rookie. Emma lives with her husband in Brooklyn, where she also works as a bookseller. ' Vissza